SEASONS TOGETHER (21st card)
Twenty-five firecracker chimes
Revolutionary birthday times
And twenty-five Augusts, nightly growing corn’s tower
Twenty-five September morns
Red schoolhouse bells and yellow bus horns
And kids of all ages held in learning’s strong power.
Twenty-five wonderful falls
Chirping squirrels, rustling leaves, wild geese calls
And twenty-five feasts of black pilgrim hat and feather
Martha and I have enjoyed
First alone and then gratefully toyed
Twenty-five celebrations of His birth together.
Twenty-five blue and white ways
Frost/snow filled, first-month, icicled days
Twenty-five months to remember Abraham and George
Twenty-five advents of spring
Mud on the ground and robin on wing
An’ lambs all respecting wind that came as from a forge
Ah twenty-five daffodils
April arrives with Easter frills
And twenty-five Mays with cricket and frog all attune
Then comes the long awaited
The one for which our breath was baited
That hot last long nineteen and sixty-one night in June
Twenty-five full great love years
A lot of happiness, a few tears
And the joys of Andrew, Lincoln, Laura and Heather
Now this month we celebrate
The birth of Christ, earth’s true Potentate
We’ve hallowed it these twenty-five seasons…together
– eab,Dec. ‘86
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